Yacht Design Paul De Saint Front

In 1919 Jules Durand Couppel de Saint Front become co-owner of Chausey Island (a French Island in the British Isles), providing inspiration for four generation of renowned sailors and artists.

Marin Marie (pseudonym), well-known for his talent of marine painting, played a very important role in the Yachting industry, both in France and internationally. His hospitality at Chausey Island was open to famous sailors such as Eric Tabarly, Ufa Fox, andChristoph Auguin and also many other captains and fishermen.

In 1970 Paul was born in Tahiti (French Polynesia) to Yves and Isabelle de Saint Front. Both Yves, and his wife Isabelle are renowned artists and painters, who lived in and explored Polynesia, Bora Bora, Moorea, and countless other islands and nameless atolls at a time when the world was a much larger place and tourism and time had not yet touched these virgin shores.

Paul has worked and lived with several personalities that have contributed to the maritime history of our world. It is this atmosphere and life experience that has helped to give Paul de Saint Front his understanding and interest of the sea.